Triumph of the market : essays on economics, politics, and the media / Edward S. Herman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : South End Press, c1995.Description: ix, 276 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0896085228 :
  • 089608521X (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.12/2 20
LOC classification:
  • HB 501 .H466 1995
Online resources:
Contents:
Part one: Economics, 1. Commodification of culture -- 2. Deregulation -- 3. Privatization -- 4. Survival of the fattest -- 5. The politicized "science" -- 6. Liberal growthmanship and free trade -- 7. Hostility to democracy -- 8. Michael Novak's promised land.
Part two: Culture, society, and politics, 9. Privatization of government -- 10. Law and order -- 11. The new racist onslaught -- 12. The "best man" -- 13. The banality of evil -- 14. Politically correct holocausts -- 15. The end of democracy?
Part three: Foreign policy, 16. The global empire -- 17. Hate thine enemies -- 18. The U.S. versus human rights in the third world -- 19. Western state terrorism and its apologetics -- 20. Reparations.
Part four: The media, 21. Market system constraints on freedom of expression -- 22. Commercial broadcasting on the march -- 23. The government shouldn't have lied -- 24. David Broder and the limits of mainstream liberalism -- 25. The Persian Gulf TV war -- 26. Toward a democratic media -- 27. Epilogue.
Summary: "The unifying theme of the essays in this volume is the increasing national and global power and reach of the market and its growing impact on all aspects of human life. I use the phrase 'the market' to denote both the corporate institutions that are the leading and dominant factors in production, trade, and finance, and the arrangements, mechanisms, and practices that permit and facilitate the buying and selling of goods and money. Thus, the 'triumph of the market' refers to the sharp increase in power- and hegemonic position - of the dominant market participants and to the now almost universal acceptance of market exchanges and private ownership as the exclusive way of organizing economic life. The two senses of the market are intimately related." -- From the preface.
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks HB 501 .H466 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML19110024

A majority of the essays were originally published in Z magazine between Dec. 1989 and Dec. 1994.

Includes a list of relevant acronyms.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-266) and index.

Part one: Economics, 1. Commodification of culture -- 2. Deregulation -- 3. Privatization -- 4. Survival of the fattest -- 5. The politicized "science" -- 6. Liberal growthmanship and free trade -- 7. Hostility to democracy -- 8. Michael Novak's promised land.

Part two: Culture, society, and politics, 9. Privatization of government -- 10. Law and order -- 11. The new racist onslaught -- 12. The "best man" -- 13. The banality of evil -- 14. Politically correct holocausts -- 15. The end of democracy?

Part three: Foreign policy, 16. The global empire -- 17. Hate thine enemies -- 18. The U.S. versus human rights in the third world -- 19. Western state terrorism and its apologetics -- 20. Reparations.

Part four: The media, 21. Market system constraints on freedom of expression -- 22. Commercial broadcasting on the march -- 23. The government shouldn't have lied -- 24. David Broder and the limits of mainstream liberalism -- 25. The Persian Gulf TV war -- 26. Toward a democratic media -- 27. Epilogue.

"The unifying theme of the essays in this volume is the increasing national and global power and reach of the market and its growing impact on all aspects of human life. I use the phrase 'the market' to denote both the corporate institutions that are the leading and dominant factors in production, trade, and finance, and the arrangements, mechanisms, and practices that permit and facilitate the buying and selling of goods and money. Thus, the 'triumph of the market' refers to the sharp increase in power- and hegemonic position - of the dominant market participants and to the now almost universal acceptance of market exchanges and private ownership as the exclusive way of organizing economic life. The two senses of the market are intimately related." -- From the preface.

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